Comments on: On advertisement and international travelinghttps://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2012/10/03/on-advertisement-and-international-traveling/
Just another GNOME Blogs weblogWed, 27 Mar 2013 16:08:13 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.1By: Daghttps://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2012/10/03/on-advertisement-and-international-traveling/comment-page-1/#comment-1006
Tue, 09 Oct 2012 05:22:52 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-1006@bochecha: I can see why you’d want that, but I think ad-blocking should be opt-in for a number of reasons. There are many websites that rely on advertisements for revenue, without being assholes about it (e.g. reddit seems to qualify). If web browsers start to block advertisements by default, such websites would no longer be possible and would have to convert to a paid premium account model. Also, I fear that websites and advertisers that are less nice about it would start to make more of an effort to circumvent adblockers, just like how spammers try hard to circumvent spam filters. Currently, adblocking works well because there’s little to no resistence; advertisers aren’t making it hard to block them. Last, no adblocking is perfect and there’s always going to be false positives that are blocked but aren’t actual advertising. I’ve seen websites break when using adblock in Firefox, so enabling it should be a concious decision and preferably it should also be easy to disable it temporarily or for individual websites.

It’s great that Epiphany is making it easy to opt in, though.

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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:16:27 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-1001And here I’d hoped that the unchecked “allow advertisements” in the screenshot indicated the default setting. Why not? Not like Web has to seriously worry about impacting the web quite yet; might as well take a tactical advantage and remove ads by default.
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Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:44:57 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-1000This may be the best way I’ve ever seen of handling AdBlock. >_>
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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:45:28 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-999Awesome!

That makes me think, when Epiphany gets flash support, would be nice to have a “click to play” feature available there too. Most of the flash content on the web is crap you don’t want to see (like random videos that autoplay and eat your CPU), but sometimes you run into corners where you really do need Flash on a per-case basis.

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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:15:50 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-997Awesome. Now the only thing I’m missing would be a working plugin that does not run flash on default to avoid crashes. I’m look forward to use 3.6/8!
]]>By: Evandrohttps://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2012/10/03/on-advertisement-and-international-traveling/comment-page-1/#comment-996
Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:36:48 +0000http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/?p=549#comment-996I think the root of the problem here is how extensions work in Epiphany. Sure, this fixes the problem for AdBlock, but what about the other ones? By just merging popular extensions you could end up with a bloated mess like Firefox and Chrome have become.

extensions.gnome.org works beautifully for the Shell but I assume something like that would be much harder for Epiphany, where extensions are written in C.

A more feasible possibility would be to distribute the extensions with the epiphany tarball, but still keep them separate from the program just as they are now. Or at least bundle the more popular and well written extensions, and rename epiphany-extensions to epiphany-extensions-extras. This would ensure users have the extensions available and ready to use in any system where Epiphany is actually installed, and that they were built against the correct Epiphany version.

Anyway, just some thoughts. I love Epiphany, the 3.6 release is rocking!